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Quote by Ralph Waldo Emerson

“Go cherish your soul; express companions; set your habits to a life of solitude; then will the faculties rise fair and full within.”

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Ralph Waldo Emerson

American essayist, poet, and philosopher. Born on May 25, 1803, and died on April 27, 1882. Known for his transcendentalist philosophy, his works have had a profound impact on literature and the intellectual world. more

“We think that play and fairytales belong to childhood - how shortsighted that is! As though we would want at any time in our life to live without play and fairytales! We give these things other names, to be sure, and feel differently about them, but precisely this is the evidence that they are the same things, for the child too regards play as his work and fairy tales as his truth. The brevity of life ought to preserve us from a pedantic division of life into different stages - as though each brought something new.”

“I've never heard my dad say a bad word about anybody. He always keeps his emotions in check and is a true gentleman. I was taught that losing it was indulgent, a selfish act.”

Emotion Heard Taught Dad Losing My Dad Selfish Checks Gentleman Bad Word True Gentleman Selfish Acts

Author:Hugh Jackman

“...If I continued to harbour any hope for music it lay in the expectation that a musician might come who was sufficiently bold, subtle, malicious, southerly, superhealthy to confront that music and in an immortal fashion take revenge on it.”

Ifs Might Fashion Musician Expectations Lays Revenge Subtle Immortal Malicious Harbour

Author:Friedrich Nietzsche

“Go through the moral demands...one by one and you will find that man could not live up to them; the intention is not that he should become more moral, but that he should feel as sinful as possible. If man had failed to find this feeling pleasant - why should he have engendered such an idea and adhered to it for so long?... Man was by every means to be made sinful and thereby become excited, animated, enlivened in general. To excite, animate, enliven at any price.”

Ifs Men Feels Should Mean Long Made Ideas Feelings Moral Demand Intention Excited Pleasant Animated Very Mean

Author:Friedrich Nietzsche

“...lust is only a sweet poison for the weakling, but for those who will with a lion's heart it is the reverently reserved wine of wines.”

Heart Sweet Wine Lust Poison Lions Reserved Sweet Poison

Author:Friedrich Nietzsche

“If you do please everyone, you are not making enough progress.”

Ifs Enough Progress Please

Book:Lean In for Graduates

Source: Lean In for Graduates

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